In the Graphite Series blog posts, I'll provide a guide to help through all of the steps involved in setting up a monitoring and alerting system using a Graphite stack. Disclaimer: I am no expert, I am just trying to help the Graphite community by providing more detailed documentation. If there's something wrong, please comment below or drop me an email at feangulo@yaipan.com.

Provision Hardware

First and foremost we need hardware on which to run the Graphite stack. For simplicity, I will be using Amazon Web Services EC2 hosts. However, feel free to use any type of computer that you might have laying around in your office or at home.